Crystal field theory of Co$^{2+}$ in doped ZnO

Details Crystal field theory of Co$^{2+}$ in doped ZnO Crystal field theory of Co$^{2+}$ in doped ZnO

2006-04-12

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0604322v2

Phys. Rev. B 74, 155201 (2006)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

28 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.74.155201

We present a crystal field theory of transition metal impurities in semiconductors in a trigonally distorted tetrahedral coordination. We develop a perturbative scheme to treat covalency effects within the weak ligand field case (Coulomb interaction dominates over one-particle splitting) and apply it to ZnO:Co$^{2+}$ (3d$^7$). Using the large value of the charge transfer energy $\Delta_{pd}$ compared to the $p$-$d$ hoppings, we perform a canonical transformation which eliminates the coupling with ligands to first order. As a result, we obtain an effective single-ion Hamiltonian, where the influence of the ligands is reduced to the one-particle 'crystal field' acting on $d$-like-functions. This derivation allows to elucidate the microscopic origin of various 'crystal field' parameters and covalency reduction factors which are usually used empirically for the interpretation of optical and ESR experiments. The connection of these parameters with the geometry of the local environment becomes transparent. The experimentally known $g$-values and the zero-field splitting 2D are very well reproduced by the exact diagonalization of the effective single-ion Hamiltonian with only one adjustable parameter $\Delta _{pd}$. Alternatively to the numerical diagonalization we use perturbation theory in the weak field scheme (Coulomb interaction $\gg$ cubic splitting $\gg$ trigonal splitting and spin-orbit coupling) to derive compact analytical expressions for the spin-Hamiltonian parameters that reproduce the result of exact diagonalization within 20% of accuracy.

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